Summary of the week of November 20, 2023

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Calibre 7 available

The popular electronic book manager Calibre arrives at its seventh version with the possibility of adding annotations to any metadata field of the collection. In addition, the viewer is improved and several errors are corrected.

Core i5-13600K

Someone has brought us a Core i5-13600K. With its million points, it is in position 18 of the general ranking. Its performance is practically identical to that of the i7-12700K despite having two fewer P and E cores.

NVK already complies with Vulkan 1.0

The free driver for NVK graphics cards already has support for Vulkan 1.0 on Turing GPUs. According to comments, compatibility with version 1.3 will be reached in a short time. In this channel you will find videos demonstrating the capabilities of the free driver: https://video.hardlimit.com/c/linux_vs_windows_benchmarks

Moore Threads continues to improve its drivers

The Chinese GPU manufacturer Moore Threads has released a new driver that improves the performance of games like PUBG or GTA 5 by up to 80%.

The history of Ethernet

In this article from the IEEE magazine, they explain the origins of Ethernet, from when it began to be developed in 1973 at Xerox PARC until it became a standard.

OLED screen burn-in tests

In this video, OLED screens have been tested for 10 months to check the typical deterioration of this technology with use. The result is that most hold up quite well although the first generation of QD-OLEDs does not have such good results.

Firefox 120 available

The hundred and twentieth version of Firefox comes with the option to copy by eliminating tracking information. A new option has also been added that informs sites that you do not want your information shared or that your activity is not tracked. In addition, it makes it more difficult to identify users univocally in private browsing.

Chrome 127 without ad blockers

Starting in June 2024, when Chrome 127 appears, Google's browser will no longer allow the use of ad and tracking blockers like uBlock Origin due to the entry into force of the new Manifest V3 API.

Core i9-14900K

Yorus has brought us the newest processor in our database. It is a Core i9-14900K, just released to the market and of which there is still little information. It is a Raptor Lake Refresh with characteristics identical to the i9-13900K and achieves a very similar performance to this.